Courtesy calls

Courtesy... It never really occurred to me till very recently, that courtesy matters to me ... A lot ...

Just recently, I've been bring m&m chocs to class to snack on and well, share with my classmates... Almost all of them were thankful for them and those who asked if I had brought m&ms again were courteous and asked nicely... Well, all but one.. And it really peeved me.. The way he demanded for them rather than requested ...

It seems like it's more the process of asking, than the meaning... Probably cos of how shallow demanding, as if it were your god-given right makes one look extremely shallow...

On another note, I was pleasently urprises this morning as I was driving to school ... A red car signalled early and took his time to edge into my lane, and when I gave way to him, he waved 'thanks', the same way the courteous driving ads on tv show... On the other hand, had he not signalled and simply cut in and not wave, the experence would have been very different...

I suppose, I've been guilty of being rude many times when I was younger... But I guess this is growing up? Or perhaps advanced aging! =X

Thinking back to my times in secondary school... I wonder ... Had anyone raise up my apparent rudeness... Would I have taken note and made changes? Is it fair to fault someone over something he/she doesn't notice? What is 'fair' anyway? After all, someone once said... All is fair in love and war... Well... Besides love and war, is there anything else? God and religion I guess...